My Mother Told Me to Leave My Sister’s Wedding So I Took My Gift With Me and the Next Day They Called

it the way you drive through other things, you have to stop and let it run its course.

I said it out loud once. Bad luck. Tried to make it make sense in the air outside my own head. It did not make more sense.

Then I pressed my hands flat against the wheel and waited until the shaking stopped and pulled back onto the road.

I thought, on the drive, about continue reading …